In 2024, during a spring break training trip with the rowing team at " Camp Bob ," Tran—an interdisciplinary scholar of history and politics—spent his downtime reading Nuclear War: A Scenario, by ...

Nuclear war creates the ultimate untreatable public health emergency. Prevention is not only the best option, it is the only ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

There’s a collection of official historical documents published by the U.S. government that — let’s be blunt — I’m obsessed with. These documents recount President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the ...

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be ...

Early this year, legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate introduced resolutions that call upon the U.S. government to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

The United States needs a nuclear posture that can credibly deter limited, non-strategic nuclear war without either forcing it to escalate to central, strategic war or forcing it to lose an ongoing ...